It’s a German food fight in Fort Worth: Little Germany moving 3 blocks from Edelweiss
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The German food fight in west Fort Worth will have to wait another month.
Little Germany Restaurant, the home of 45 years of German kitchen experience in Fort Worth, now plans to move Feb. 1 to its new location at 6737 Camp Bowie Blvd.
That’s three blocks from Edelweiss Restaurant, which opened 52 years ago but changed hands in 2010.
Little Germany had planned to move Jan. 1, but continues for another month in its hole-in-the-wall location at 703 N. Henderson St., on a roundabout.
That means Little Germany will be moving in the middle of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, traditionally when both restaurants are popular for their inexpensive German-style mustard-rubbed steaks.
Meanwhile, another German restauant is closing. Greenwoods German European Restaurant will close Jan. 11 on Bluebonnet Circle near TCU. The owners, the Grunewalds, are retiring.
Both Little Gemany and Edelweiss restaurants have their loyal customers.
Some followed the Gonzalez family nine years ago when they left jobs at Edelweiss and started Little Germany, loyally serving the original recipes of retired Edelweiss founder Bernd Schnerzinger.
It was like a jaeger schnitzel divorce. Other patrons stayed at Edelweiss, where German polka bands have merged with the singing waiters of the former Italian Inn for a dining and entertainment experience combining German and Italian entrees.
“They’ve done well,” Lupe Gonzalez said.
Then she said proudly: “We think we cook everything the original way.”
Little Germany is popular for the red cabbage, sausages, sauerbraten, kraut and for the tenderloin and New York strip.
The signature dessert, apple strudel with ice cream, is still baked in-house daily, she said.
The new location in a former Denny’s is nearly ready to open, but needed work on a natural gas line, she said.
“It has new everything,” she said. “And the location’s good. Not like here.”
Little Germany’s location near downtown was good for the first few years, but business has dropped by half since White Settlement Road was blocked for work on a Panther Island bridge.
“We still get people from downtown but we don’t get as many people from the west side,” she said.
(Motorists can reach the current restaurant from Henderson Street, or by zigzagging along backroads from Harrold Street in the Left Bank shopping area.)
Little Germany opens at 10 a.m. weekdays and Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. Sundays for an early lunch crowd. It stays open through dinner daily.
Watch for a moving update or call 682-224-2601.
This story was originally published January 1, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
